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Who's blaming NISA here? This is obviously the result of Tecmo Koei's decision.

Even from a sales viewpoint, this is a bad decision. These games are marketed to a very niche audience, with a relatively high ratio of players who prefer to play with Japanese audio, as opposed to a more mainstream franchise like Final Fantasy. This is a small group of people who are willing to pay high *as long* as they get exactly what they want. To suddenly take away from them a feature they've been used to having previously may not be worth foregoing the price of voice actor royalties.

Even from a sales viewpoint, this is a bad decision. These games are marketed to a very niche audience, with a relatively high ratio of players who prefer to play with Japanese audio, as opposed to a more mainstream franchise like Final Fantasy. This is a small group of people who are willing to pay high *as long* as they get exactly what they want. To suddenly take away from them a feature they've been used to having previously may not be worth foregoing the price of voice actor royalties.

They may be doing this intentionally, as an excuse to never bother with localizing Atelier titles again.

knowing Nis, they probably tried to get the both English and Japanese voice over. i guess
the real problem is from TK. they are on a role of NO english voice whatsoever (warrior orochi 3
and probably the upcoming Ken's Rage 2).

both sides probably conflicting with each others and so we have half a dub and
all these confusion mess.

I don't even remember when was the last time I posted on this forums, but I just have to say this is some serious bullshit. The Atelier series is perhaps the only one that's a guaranteed purchase for me, and given how ridiculous expensive PS3 games are in my country, the fact that I was going to get this game on day one shows how much I love them. Sadly, no Japanese audio track is something I can't put up with.

I guess we will have to wait and see, maybe it was all a mistake and there is indeed dual audio, in which case I'll be more than happy to pay for this game. Luckily I own a PS3 with CFW, so I'll just download an undub, but this one I wasn't even thinking about pirating.